Durham Alliance for Community Care - DACC 3.08

We provide high quality local day care for
older people in County Durham, assisting
them to remain within their communities

Our centres - in Bishop Auckland, Willington, New Brancepeth, Pelton and Esh Winning - have a friendly, cosy atmosphere, and qualified, experienced and caring staff.

Club members receive just as much attention as they want, and help decide what activities take place at the centre they attend.

DACC provides high quality local day care so that older people in County Durham can remain in their communities.


This approach has advantages for Club Members, Carers and the wider Community:

Our older citizens can continue to be valuable assets to their communities, while benefiting from a wider circle of friends, and from a change in their daily environment.

Home-carers get much needed respite.

Keeping care local means investment in the local economy.



DACC was formed in 1994. As a Society for the Benefit of the Community (Industrial & Provident Society Reg. No. 28016R), it has charity status with the Inland Revenue.


Our Management Board is made up of volunteers, and any financial surplus is used to improve the care DACC provides.


DACC currently holds contracts with Durham County Council Social Services Department, the National Health Service and a rapidly increasing number of private clients.